R Observatory: Metrics for RcppAPT version 0.0.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RcppAPT

0.0.10Package record

'Rcpp' Interface to the APT Package Manager

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

15.4%test coverage

11/11flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The 'APT Package Management System' provides Debian and Debian-derived Linux systems with a powerful system to resolve package dependencies. This package offers access directly from R. This can only work on a system with a suitable 'libapt-pkg-dev' installation so functionality is curtailed if such a library is not found.

Changes in 0.0.10

Package maintenance updating continuous integration script versions as well as coverage link from README, and switching to Authors@R
C++ compilation standards updated to C++17 to comply with libapt-pkg

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("RcppAPT", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("eddelbuettel/rcppapt")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppapt. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rcppapt

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-RcppAPT

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-RcppAPT

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

11OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK11 OK2026-08-05
NOTE10 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK12 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.10

READMEYes · 242 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · mentions 0.0.10Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 9includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 11%

Vignettes (1)

Minimal Set of binnmu Packages HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,279 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32530 days

86590 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on347 r2u142 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/rcppapt ↗Account: eddelbuettel

11Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

124Commits

1Commit identities

cranr-packageraptlibapt-pkg

124 commits · Last activity 2026-01-08 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.0.10.1, ahead of CRAN 0.0.10 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,250
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 102026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppapt on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-08

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

EditorConfig

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RcppAPT adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

simplermarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2015)

Releases (10)

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-23
Total releases: 10 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 56 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RcppAPT")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D. (2024). RcppAPT: 'Rcpp' Interface to the APT Package Manager (Version 0.0.10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RcppAPT

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RcppAPT version 0.0.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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